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Title:

A cross-cultural exploration of wife abuse : problems and prospects / edited by Aysan Sevʼer.

Publisher:

Edwin Mellen Press,

Copyright Date:

c1997

Description:

xii, 257 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Wife abuse--Cross-cultural studies.
Abused women--Psychology.--Cross-cultural studies.
Family violence.--Cross-cultural studies.
Conjugal violence.--Cross-cultural studies.
Conjugal violence--Cross-cultural studies.
Abused women--Cross-cultural studies.--Cross-cultural studies.

Other Authors:

Sevʼer, Aysan, 1945-

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 246-250) and index.

Contents:

The family violence and woman abuse debate: reviewing the literature, posing alternatives / Katharine D. Kelly -- Measuring wife assault by surveys: some conceptual and methodological problems / Alice Propper -- Agitators and peace-makers: cross cultural perspectives on older women and the abuse of young wives / Judith K. Brown -- The interaction of cultural and personality factors in the etiology of wife assault -- Donald G. Dutton and Cynthia van Ginkel -- Tradition or tribulation: thoughts on women's oppression and wife abuse in Ghana / Rosemary A.O. Ofei-Aboagye -- Cash or kind: economic violence and sexually transmitted debt / Jocelynne A. Scutt -- Wife abuse and the family's crisis: the case of Canada / John F. Conway -- Criminal justice programs for batterers: can they contribute to the efforts of ending violence against women? / Russell P. Dobash ... [et al.].

Series:

Mellen studies in sociology ; v. 14

ISBN:

9780889466302 (series)
0889466300 (series)
9780773485174
0773485171

OCLC:

(OCoLC)37464640
(OCoLC)38746918

LCCN:

97033576

Locations:

USUX851 -- ISU Library (Ames)